AuthorTopic: usb rtl8187 wlan not working (Read 5614 times)

Hi!,I'm trying to use a USB wileless lan card(rtl8187 chip) on vector5.9,downloaded the driver"rtl8187_linux_26.1025.0328.2007.tar.gz",decompressed it,following the readme ,then "./makedrv","./wlan0up"===============================================./wlan0up: line 4: insmod: command not found

./wlan0up: line 5: insmod: command not found

./wlan0up: line 6: insmod: command not found

./wlan0up: line 7: insmod: command not found

./wlan0up: line 8: insmod: command not found

./wlan0up: line 11: insmod: command not found

./wlan0up: line 15: ifconfig: command not found

-----------------------------------------------many attemps wlan0 still not working.what's the proper commands to make it functional?

I believe that support for rtl8187 is built-in to the kernel or at least an available module. Having said that it never worked for me. Thus I use ndiswrapper for both my wireless adapters (rtl8185 - pcmcia, and rtl8187 - usb). The usb (8187) adapter shuts off after about 10-15 minutes but the pcmcia adapter (8185) works as it should.HTH vs confuses,Mike

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Bonjour!once run ./makedrv as root ,rtl8187 worked somehow by typing ./wlan0up as root,while can't configure IP with "wlan0dhcp",i've got to type ''ifconfig wlan0 up 192.168.1.199" and also adding "alias wlan0 r8187" to "/etc/modprobe.conf"...also rtl8187 not stable,sysrem got hung from time to time ...maybe the method of reconfiging kernel to support rtl8187 would run very stable, would anyone elaborate the commands again?meawhile i 'd like to try ndiswrapper for rtl8187,pls. inform the how-tos as well, as ndiswrapper's not included package on vector mirror ftp.

Hi! I have a wifi device with the same chipset, and I couldn't compile the official drivers , so I compile a new kernel with the rtl8187 module support. This module is very unstable and every 10 minutes i have to disconnect device, connect, and configure it. Another bad thing is that this driver cannot permit monitor mode . If someone use this chipset with ndiswrapper, please tell me what windows version driver works good. thanks

I've used the WinXP drivers through ndiswrapper. It quits after 10-15 minutes, just as the native module does to you, so I've stopped using it when in VL. I could never get the native module to work for me...I use under it XP without any issues though. (I'm using rtl8185 in VL and no problems.)

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